Map showing ancient Thessaly. Phalara is shown to the centre bottom on the Malian Gulf.

Phalara (Ancient Greek: τὰ Φάλαρα)[1] was a city in Malis in ancient Thessaly that functioned as the port of Lamia. It is located at the modern town of Stylida.[2][3][4]

References

  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p. 435. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  3. Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William L.; McAllister, Marian Holland, eds. (1976). "Phalara". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

38°54′46″N 22°36′26″E / 38.9129°N 22.6073°E / 38.9129; 22.6073


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